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Nno-Uork : 

JOHN   W.    AMEEMAN,   PEINTER, 
No.  47  CEDAR  STREET. 

1863. 


Ijre  ftoffliiittnt  is  f  rmblhig. 


THE  continent  is  trembling  with  the  tramp 
Of  countless  armies.     In  the  dreary  camp 
And  on  the  wasted  field,  the  flower  of  youth 
And  loyalty  has  given  to  God  and  Truth, 
To  Country  and  Mankind,  the  bravest,  best 

Of  blood,  the  charm  of  home,  the  gem  of  health, 

The  calm  pursuit  of  comfort  and  of  wealth, 
To  save  the  young  Republic  of  the  West. 
God  guard  and  cheer  them  in  their  glorious  strife ; 
They  battle  for  a  sovereign  nation's  life ! 

Time  was,  when  over  mountain,  dale  and  plain, 
A  savage  sceptre  ruled  this  broad  domain. 
Our  lordly  land  by  northern  races  won, 
The  tawny  Indian  sought  the  setting  sun. 

Then  came  the  cohorts  of  Imperial  France ; 
Their  bold  battalions  quailed  before  the  lance 
Of  the  young  warrior,  WASHINGTON.     Then  groaned  the  earth 
With  the  long  travail  of  a  nation's  birth. 
The  haughty  Briton  bowed  and  bit  the  sod— 
A  new-born  nation  owned  the  smile  of  God  ! 

The  years  roll  on,  and  o'er  the  land  and  seas 
Our  starry  emblem  proudly  courts  the  breeze ; 
Now  streams,  Quebec !  above  thy  frowning  walls, 
Now  gaily  floats  o'er  Montezuma's  halls. 

Time  still  moves  onward,  and  a  stealthy  thrust 
Brings  down  our  soaring  Eagle  to  the  dust ; 
His  breast  was  proof  against  a  foreign  dart, 
But  Treason  almost  reached  his  throbbing  heart. 
Our  land,  like  Eden,  from  without  secure, 

Nursed  a  cold  viper  in  its  flowery  bed ; 
Shall  we  go  forth  to  weep  and  to  endure, 

Or  rise  and  crush  the  slimy  serpent's  head  ? 
God  bless  the  tongue,  the  pen,  the  vote,  the  sword, 
By  which  our  nation's  sway  shall  be  restored  ! 
God  speed  free  labor  and  the  rights  of  men, 
And  plant  our  flag  on  Sumter's  tower  again  1 
With  a  new  meaning  in  each  sacred  fold, 
That  flag  shall  make  the  patriot  warrior  bold. 

And  when  our  captains,  with  the  sword  and  lance, 
Shall  lead  our  armies  in  their  ^roud  advance, 
The  poor  white  outcast,  with  enfranchised  slaves, 
Shall  wave  our  standard  over  traitors'  graves  !* 

*  These  lines  wero  written  and  inserted  by  Mr.  DKLAFIILD  SMITH,  in  an  address  delivered 
before  the  Mechanics'  Society,  at  Irving  Hall,  New  York,  January  9th,  1SC3. 


at  Union  £»quart, 


AT  THE  WAE  MEETING,  CALLED  BY  THE  COMMITTEES  OF  THE  NEW 
YORK  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE,  THE  COMMON  COUNCIL,  THE  UNION 
DEFENCE  COMMITTEE,  AND  OTHER  BODIES,  IN  RESPONSE  TO  AN 
APPEAL  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 

FOR  ADDITIONAL  MILITARY  FORCES. 

[EXTRACTED  FROM  A  PRINTED  REPORT  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS.,   PREPARED  UNDEB  THE 
SUPERVISION  OF  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE.] 

Mr.  SMITH,  being  introduced  by  General  FREMONT, 
.who  presided  at  the  stand  near  the  Spingler  Institute, 
was  received  with  great  enthusiasm,  and  spoke  as  fol 
lows: 

MEN  OF  NEW  YORK  :  —  This  is,  in  truth,  a  colossal  demonstra 
tion.  The  eye  can  hardly  reach  the  boundaries  of  these  com 
pact  thousands.  It  would  be  vain  for  the  voice  to  attempt  it. 
The  people  have  come  in  their  might.  They  have  come  in 
their  majesty.  They  have  "  come  as  the  winds  come  when  for 
ests  are  rended."  They  have  "  come  as  the  waves  come  when 
navies  are1  stranded."  "We  are  here  to-day,  not  to  speak  and 
acclaim,  but  to  act  and  incite  to  action.  [Applause.]  "We 
know  that  this  monster  rebellion  cannot  be  spoken  down  ;  it 
must  be  fought  down  !  [Cheers.] 

"We  are  assembled  to  animate  each  other  to  renewed  efforts 
and  nobler  sacrifices,  in  behalf  of  our  imperilled  country. 
There  is  hardly  one  of  us  who  has  not,  at  this  hour,  some  en 
deared  relative  on  the  bloody  fields  of  Virginia.  The  voices 
of  our  armed  and  suffering  brethren  literally  cry  to  us  from  the 
ground.  To-day  we  hear  them.  To-day  let  us  heed  them.  [Ap 
plause.]  The  call  for  fresh  troops  comes  to  us  from  a  loved  and 
trusted  President  —  from  faithful  and  heroic  generals.  [Loud 
cheers.]  This  day  determines  that  it  shall  bo  answered.  [Re- 


newed  cheers.]  Let  each  act  as  though  specially  commissioned 
to  obtain  recruits  for  a  sacred  service.  [Applause.] 

FREMONT  is  here.  You  have  heard  his  voice.  lie  has  told 
us  to  uphold  our  government  and  sustain  our  generals  in  the 
field.  Whatever  officer  may  go  to  battle  with  the  President's 
commission,  will  be  made  strong  by  a  loyal  people's  prayers 
and  confidence.  [Loud  cheering.] 

The  Army  and  Navy,  the  President,  the  Cabinet  and  the  Con 
gress,  have  done  all  that  can  now  be  effected  by  them. 
The  issue  to-day  is  with  the  people.  Do  you  ask  activity  on 
the  part  of  the  President  ?  Recall  his  personal  labor  and  su 
pervision  in  the  council  and  the  field.  Do  you  seek  a  poli 
cy  ?  Look  to  his  solemn  conference  with  the  loyalists  of  the 
border  States.  [Cheers.]  Do  you  demand  legislation?  Wit 
ness  the  matured  laws  that  Congress  has  spread  upon  the  statute- 
book.  A  jurist,  from  the  bench  of  our  highest  tribunal,  once 
declared  a  maxim  which  shocked  the  country  and  the  world. 
It  is  ours,  with  our  representatives,  to  respond :  A  REBEL 

"HAS   NO    KIGIITS   WHICH   A    WUITE   MAN   IS    BOUND   TO   RESPECT!" 

[Loud  and  long  continued  cheering,  with  waving  of  hats  and 
handkerchiefs.] 

A  traitor  cannot  own  a  loyalist  of  any  race.  Nor  can  u  ser 
vice  be  due"  to  national  conspirators,  except  at  the  call  of 
public  justice.  [Laughter  and  applause.] 

The  limits  of  civilized  warfare  must  and  will  be  observed ; 
but  those  limits  are  broad  as  the  boundaries  of  the  ocean,  and 
they  lie  far  beyond  the  lives  and  the  treasure  of  traitors  in 
arms.  [Cheers.]  In  this  mortal  combat  between  the  enemies 
and  the  friends  of  republican  liberty,  wherein  treason  scruples 
at  nothing,  patriots  must  neglect  no  means  that  God  and  na 
ture  have  placed  in  their  hands.  [Loud  cheers.] 

These  institutions  were  reared  on  the  ruins  of  British  pride. 
Their  foundations  must  be  reconstructed  on  the  crumbled  pre 
tensions  of  southern  oligarchs.  [Renewed  cheers.]  We  must, 
and  we  will,  repel  force  by  force.  They  who  press  an  iron 
heel  upon  the  heart  of  our  noble  nation,  must  perish  by  the 
eword  of  her  avenging  sons.  God  grant  the  time  may  be  near 
when  every  rebel  leader  may  say  his  prayers,  and  bite  the  dust, 


or  hang  as  high  as  Haman.  If  we  are  wise,  and  true,  and 
brave,  the  American  Union,  like  the  sun  in  the  heavens,  shall 
be  clouded  but  for  a  night.  Still  shall  it  move  onward,  and 
every  obstacle  in  its  pathway  be  withered  and  crushed.  [Re 
newed  and  continued  cheering.] 

Victory,  indeed,  cannot  be  won,  except  by  arms.  Our  in 
stitutions  were  the  gift  of  the  wounded  and  dead  of  the  armies 
of  WASHINGTON.  SHAKSPEARE  said,  and  we  re-utter  in  a  higher 
sense, 

"  Things  bought  with  blood  must  be  by  blood  maintained." 

Look  to  our  armies,  and  rally  the  people  to  swell  their  wasted 
ranks.  Go,  you  who  can.  And  spare  neither  men  nor  money 
to  enable  others  to  march  to  battle.  [Cheers.] 

Let  loyal  men  permit  no  question  to  distract  or  divide  them. 
Care  not  what  a  man's  theories  may  be,  so  that  his  heart  feels 
and  his  hand  works  for  the  Union.  Every  citizen,  North  or 
South,  who  prays  for  the  success  of  our  arms,  and  who  labors 
for  the  vindication  of  our  Constitution,  whatever  may  be  his 
politics  or  opinions,  is  a  patriot.  [Cheers.]  They  who  con 
demn  any  class  of  our  fellow-citizens,  because  of  diiferences  on 
collateral  issues — those  who  declare  that  a  loyal  abolitionist  is 
on  a  level  with  an  armed  secessionist — are  wrong  in  head,  or 
at  heart  unsound.  [Applause.] 

Let  assertions  like  this  be  at  an  end.  Let  all  loyal  men,  and 
all  loyal  journals,  abandon  arguments  which  bear  the  dull  and 
counterfeit  ring  of  traitor  philosophy.  [Loud  applause.] 

For  the  rest — for  those  who  not  alone  seem,  but  are,  disloyal 
— let  the  people  arise  in  their  might,  and  silence  them  all, 
whether  they  speak  in  the  street  to  the  few,  or  seek,  through 
the  public  press,  to  poison  the  many.  Law,  in  many  things,  can 
not  go  so  far,  nor  accomplish  so  much,  as  determined  public 
opinion.  [Cheers.]  While  men  like  ANDREW  JOHNSON,  of  Ten 
nessee,  with  herculean  strength,  strike,  in  their  districts,  at  the 
hydra  of  rebellion,  shall  not  we,  in  New  York,  war  upon  the 
spirit  of  secession  in  every  form  ?  [Applause,  and  cries  of 
"  We  will."]  The  old  flag  must  be  the  paramount  object  of  all. 


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It  will  be  loved  by  the  faithful.     By  the  false,  it  must  be 
feared.     [Vociferous  cheering.] 

The}'  talk  of  a  distinction  between  fidelity  to  the  government 
and  devotion  to  the  administration.  In  the  day  of  national  dan 
ger  or  disaster,  the  two  sentiments  are  inseparable.  Distrust 
him  who  professes  the  one  only  to  disclaim  the  other.  [Ap 
plause.]  When  the  tempest  howls,  no  prayer  breathed  for  the 
ship  forgets  the  pilot  at  her  helm.  [Applause  and  cheers.] 

Loyalty  knows  no  conditions.  Stand  by  the  government ! 
Scrutinize  its  action  ;  but  do  it  like  earnest  patriots — not  like 
covert  traitors.  Stand  by  the  administration!  In  times 
like  these,  party  spirit  should  be  lulled.  That  spirit  was 
hushed  in  the  era  of  the  Revolution — in  the  days  of  MADISON 
and  MONROE — and  when  the  hero  of  New  Orleans  crushed  the 
rising  form  of  Nullification.  Our  fathers  stood  by  JACKSON,  as 
their  sires  sustained  WASHINGTON.  It  is  our  privilege  to  uphold 
the  arm  of  a  President,  great  and  pure,  who  will  share  their 
glory  on  the  page  of  history.  [Loud  cheering.] 

I  must  trespass  no  longer.  [Cries  of  "  go  on,  go  on."]  No, 
fellow-citizens;  I  will  bid  you  farewell.  Our  illustrious  Secre 
tary  of  State  has  this  day  given  to  the  army  the  only  son  not 
already  in  the  public  service.  Let  us  emulate  his  spirit  of 
sacrifice,  and  think  nothing  too  dear  to  offer  on  the  altar  of  our 
country. 

Mr.  SMITH  spoke  with  a  clear,  loud  voice,  and  retired 
in  the  midst  of  most  enthusiastic  cheering. 


at  Ulatoson  Squaw, 


AT  THE  MEETING,  HELD  APRIL  20,  1863,  UNDER  THE  AUSPICES  OF 
THE  UNION  LEAGUES,  TO  PLEDGE  OUR  ARMIES  IN  THE  FIELD 
THE  MORAL  SUPPORT  OF  THE  PEOPLE  AT  HOME. 

[EXTRACTED  FROM  THE  RECORD  OF  THE  ADDRESSES,  PUBLISHED  BY  THE  cosonrrEE  or 

ARRANGEMENTS.] 

Mr.  WILLIAM  E.  DODGE,  the  Chairman  at  the  ladies' 
stand,  came  forward,  and  said  :  "  Fellow-citizens,  I  have 
the  honor  to  introduce  the  only  prosecuting  officer  who 
ever  had  the  courage  to  undertake,  and  the  ability  to 
accomplish,  the  execution  on  the  gallows  of  a  slave- 
trader.  I  present  to  you  the  Hon.  E.  DELAFIELD  SMITH, 
United  States  District  Attorney."  Mr.  SMITH  was  wel 
comed  with  cheering,  which  lasted  for  some  time  after 
he  appeared  in  front  of  the  platform.  He  then  pro 
ceeded  to  speak  as  follows  : 

CITIZENS  OF  NEW  YORK  :  —  When  Athenians  met,  as  ancient 
annals  tell,  to  deliberate  upon  the  welfare  of  their  country,  a 
prayer  ascended  to  the  gods  —  an  invocation  for  a  blessing. 
Heaven's  sun  smiles  not  upon  us  to-day  ;  but  we  have  a  bene 
diction  through  the  medium  of  this  delegation  of  Heaven's 
nearest  representatives.  [Applause.]  The  lady  of  the  South 
hugs  the  rattlesnake  emblem,  because  it  is  the  symbol  of  her 
negro  dowry.  The  daughter  of  the  North  reads  in  her  flag 
the  record  of  a  nation's  glory.  [Renewed  applause.] 

I  shall  acknowledge  the  generous  introduction  of  your 
president,  and  the  cordial  greeting  of  this  assemblage,  by  an 
address  remarkable  only  for  its  brevity.  TVhy  should  we  not 
be  brief?  There  is  but  one  question  before  the  American 
people.  That  question,  indeed,  is  of  mighty  magnitude,  and 
upon  its  solution  hangs  the  fate  of  the  "  great  republic."  But 


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it  is  easily  answered.  Have  Americans  of  18C1  the  constancy 
and  courage  to  crush  domestic  traitors,  as  their  fathers,  in  1776, 
subdued  British  foes  ?  To  what  purpose  was  the  blood  of  the 
Revolution  shed,  if  the  soil  that  absorbed  it  produces  a  race  too 
cowardly  or  too  factious  to  fight  and  unite  for  the  welfare,  the 
integrity,  the  existence  of  a  nation  like  this  ?  [Renewed 
cheering.] 

I  sat  in  the  gallery  of  the  Senate  a  few  weeks  before  BRECK- 
INRIDGE  crawled  from  the  national  capital  to  a  rebel  camp.  The 
Union  and  the  Constitution  were  covered  all  over  with  the 
slime  of  his  praise.  Many  in  the  Xorth  are  allied  to  him  in 
secret  sympathy,  and  the  lurking  demon  that  haunted  his 
heart  prompts  them  to  the  substance  of  the  same  outward  ut 
terances.  Away  with  all  disguises  !  [Cheers.]  Are  we  for 
our  country  ?  Then  we  are  patriots  !  Are  we  for  her  destroy 
ers?  Then  their  guilt  is  ours!  WITHOUT  A  COMMON  FLAG, 

WHERE    19    THE    UlS'IOX  ?        WlTIIOl'T   A    COUNTRY,    WHERE   IS   THE 

CONSTITUTION  ?     [Loud  and  prolonged  cheering.] 

In  the  years  of  by-gone  parties,  Whig  generals,  in  a  Demo 
cratic  war,  led  American  armies  to  the  city  of  Mexico.  To 
night,  we  behold  Democratic  leaders  rallying  the  people  around 
a  government  from  which  they  may  differ  as  to  administra 
tion,  but  with  which  they  arc  one  in  a  determination  to  pre 
serve  and  perpetuate  it.  Democrats  !  you  have  never  faltered 
in  protecting  your  country  from  foreign  bayonets.  Will  you 
not  shield  her  from  more  deadly  daggers,  aimed  at  her  breast 
by  her  own  pampered  and  treacherous  children  ?  [Applause.] 
"One  country,  one  constitution,  one  destiny  !"  Such  is  the 
spirit  of  exhortation  that  comes  from  Mount  Vernon,  from 
Monticello,  from  Qnincy,  from  the  Hermitage,  from  the  shades 
of  Ashland,  and  from  the  sea-washed  meadows  of  Marshfield. 
"  One  country,  one  constitution,  one  destiny  !''  Let  this  les 
son,  breathed  from  the  tomb  of  a  patriot,  and  mingling  with  the 
traditions  of  the  past,  prevail  over  dishonoring  suggestions  from 
degenerate  sons  of  the  present,  as  the  hiss  of  the  serpent  that 
may  creep  over  the  grave  of  WEBSTER  is  lost  in  the  ocean  mur 
murs  by  which  his  solemn  requiem  is  forever  sung !  [Loud 
cheering.] 


11 

Democrats  !  the  party  of  JACKSON  has  foundered  too  long  in 
shallow  Southern  harbors.  It  has  been  lured  by  false  lights 
and  steered  by  drunken  helmsmen.  The  time  has  come  to  re- 
ship  the  old  crew,  and  sail  in  the  track  of  the  Northern  star. 
[Cheers.] 

Who  are  they  who  distract  and  divide  the  people  ?  Let 
their  discord  be  hushed  in  the  loud  music  of  according  voices, 
swelling  the  anthem  of  Freedom  and  Nationality  !  [Continued 
cheering.] 

I  close  as  I  began.  There  is  but  one  vital  question — but  one 
living  issue.  They  that  are  true  upon  that,  are  right  in  every 
thing.  Those  who  inflate  minor  matters  into  moment  now,  are 
themselves  deluded,  or  aim  to  make  others  the  victims  of  de 
ception.  HE  WHO  LOVES  SLAVERY  OB  PARTY,  AND  HE  WHO  HATES 
SLAVERY  OR  PARTY,  MORE  THAN  HE  LOVES  HIS  COUNTRY,  MAY  CALL 
HIMSELF  A  DEMOCRAT  OR  A  PHILANTHROPIST,  BUT  HE  CANNOT  BE  A 

PATRIOT  !     [Loud  and  continued  cheering.] 


PRESENTED,  AT  THE  REQUEST  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGE 
MENTS,  AT  A  UNION  MEETING,  HELD  AT  COOPER  INSTITUTE, 
NEW  YORK,  OCTOBER  29,  1863,  ON  THE  EVE  OF  THE  NEW  YORK 
STATE  ELECTION. 

[COPIED  FBOM  BEPOBT3  OF  THE  MEETING,   PUBLISHED  IS  THE  DAILY  PBESS.] 

Resolved,  That  political  parties  can  have  no  legitimate  existence, 
when  the  questions  to  which  they  owed  their  vitality  have  faded  from 
the  public  mind.  Organizations,  the  healthful  growth  of  a  state  of 
peace,  may  well  prove  out  of  place  and  pernicious  in  a  period  of  insur 
rection.  Opinions,  born  of  a  dead  past,  often  admit  of  no  application 
to  living  issues  of  the  present.  The  partisan  divisions  which  were 
visible  when  this  defensive  war  broke  out,  have  been  obliterated  by 
the  wave  of  popular  feeling  which  has  swept  over  the  land,  receiving 
its  first  but  not  its  last  impulse  upon  the  desecration  of  the  American 
flag  at  the  fall  of  Sumter. 

Resolved,  That  both  the  Whig  and  Democratic  parties  having  ful 
filled  their  respective  missions,  and  having  been  long  ago  consigned 
to  the  tomb  of  the  Capulets,  the  continued  attempt  of  the  allies  and 
dupes  of  treason  to  galvanize  their  remains  and  to  make  them  stalk  at 
the  head  of  their  motley  ranks,  is  an  insult  to  the  intelligence  of  the 
American  people.  And  the  outrage  is  the  more  flagrant  when  the 
image  of  HENRY  CLAY  is  made  in  effect  to  carry  the  flag  of  Disunion, 
and  the  shade  of  ANDREW  JACKSON  is  invoked  to  bear  the  banner  of 
Secession. 

Resolved,  That  the  Unionists  of  New  York,  coming  and  combining 
from  all  organizations,  look  with  contempt  upon  the  efforts  of  men 
who  have  never  acted  with  the  Democratic  party,  to  use  its  name  and 
traditions  against  the  government  of  their  country  it  its  mortal  strug 
gle  with  rebellion.  And  we  hail  with  satisfaction  the  indications 
everywhere  prevailing,  that  the  Democratic  masses,  warned  of  new 
lights,  arc  following  in  great  numbers  the  signals  of  old  and  tried 
leaders,  and  are  practically  demonstrating  their  devotion  to  the  cause 
of  patriotism  and  principle. 


Resolved,  That  human  ingenuity  may  be  taxed  in  vain  to  discover 
a  distinction,  in  moral  guilt  or  in  baleful  influence,  between  men  who 
adhere  to  a  foreign  despot  and  those  who  encourage  a  domestic  con 
spirator.  A  tyrant,  in  1776,  attempted  to  smother  a  country  in  its 
infancy.  A  traitor,  in  1861,  seeks  to  .assassinate  a  nation  in  its  man 
hood.  Americans  who  then  avowedly  or  secretly  gave  aid  and  com 
fort  to  GEORGE  THE  THIRD,  were  not  one  whit  more  culpable  than  those 
who  now,  either  openly  or  covertly,  sustain  the  falling  fortunes  of  JEF 
FERSON  DAVIS.  Native  Tories  and  Hartford  Conventionists,  Nullifica- 
tionists  and  Copperheads,  will  be  consigned,  in  our  country's  glorious 
future,  to  one  common  grave  of  infamy  and  execration. 

Resolved,  That  the  existing  conflict  waged  by  the  national  authority 
to  defend  the  Constitution,  perpetuate  the  Union,  and  preserve  the 
nation's  life,  is  equally  sacred  with  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  to 
which  the  nation  owes  its  origin.  That  in  a  cause  so  momentous,  it 

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is  our  duty  to  use  every  weapon  known  to  the  righteous  usages  of 
nations.  That,  to  this  end,  we  heartily  approve  the  several  acts  of 
Congress  for  enrolling  the  national  forces ;  providing  bounties  for  vol 
unteers  ;  wresting  the  habeas  corpus  from  the  uses  of  treason  ;  indem 
nifying  public  officers  from  the  malignity  of  arrested  traitors;  retaliat 
ing  for  outrages  upon  Southern  Unionists  and  weakening  the  enemy 
by  confiscating  the  property  of  rebels ;  opening  the  lands  of  the  South 
to  free  white  labor ;  arming  friendly  troops,  of  every  color,  creed  and 
clime  ;  and  the  President's  immortal  proclamation  for  the  perpetual 
emancipation  of  the  slave. 

Resolved,  That  again  and  again  we  return  our  grateful  acknowledg 
ments  to  the  soldiers  and  sailors  who,  upon  the  land  and  sea,  have 
bravely  borne  our  flag  through  the  storms  of  battle.  AVe  tender  them 
our  congratulations  upon  the  moral  sympathy  and  support  with  which 
the  ballot-box  has  responded  to  the  tidings  of  their  triumphs.  "While 
Vicksburg  has  answered  to  Gettysburg,  and  while  Port  Hudson,  Little 
Rock,  and  East  Tennessee,  have  united  in  a  national  anthem,  Connec 
ticut  has  called  to  California,  California  to  Maine,  Maine  to  Towa,  Iowa 
to  Vermont,  Vermont  to  Indiana,  until  at  length  the  voices  of  all  have 
been  drowned  in  the  popular  artillery  which  has  thundered  from  the 
mines  of  Pennsylvania  and  from  the  gardens  of  Ohio. 

Resolved,  That  the  action  of  our  opponents  in  every  State  wherein 
they  have  possessed  either  legislative  or  executive  control,  in  with- 


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holding  the  sacred  right  of  suffrage  from  our  brave  defenders  in  the 
field,  exhibits  a  fear  of  the  masses  in  singular  contrast  with  the  unter- 
rified  confidence  of  the  democracy  of  other  days.  Under  whatever 
pretext  or  subterfuge  that  right  may  be  denied,  we  challenge  the  most 
acute  champion  of  this  injustice  to  produce  a  substantial  reason  for  its 
infliction,  except  that  the  soldier's  ballot,  like  his  blood,  is  consecrated 
to  the  cause  of  his  country. 

Resolved,  That  the  defeat  of  WOODWARD,  a  wary  conservative,  the 
rebuke  of  TUTTLE,  a  dissatisfied  General,  and  the  annihilation  of  VAL- 
LANDIGHAM,  a  martyr  to  treason,  alike  demonstrate  that  no  device  can 
hide  from  the  people  the  evil  influence  of  Opposition  victories,  no 
matter  under  what  auspices  those  victories  may  be  achieved.  No 
party  can  be  entitled  to  the  confidence  of  a  country  when  its  successes 
are  promoted  by  the  defeat,  and  its  discomfitures  by  the  triumph  of 
the  National  arms.  As  MACBETH  was  prompted  to  treason  and  mur 
der  by  the  black  prophecies  of  the  heath,  so  the  South  was  instigated 
to  rebellion  and  usurpation  by  the  darker  promises  of  Northern  dem 
ocrats.  And.  later:  Rebellion,  staggered  by  telling  blows,  revived 
upon  the  hope  of  Opposition  gains ;  and  now,  New  York,  having 
intrusted  her  executive  power  to  the  Opposition,  has  taught  her  own 
people,  as  well  as  her  sister  States,  how  much  of  encouragement  can 
thus  be  imparted  to  the  Rebel  Government,  and  how  little  to  our 
own. 

Resolved,  That  in  common  with  the  electors  of  other  States,  the 
people  of  New  York  distrust  the  loyalty  of  those  who  extol  the  deeds 
of  rebel  chieftains,  but  hear  in  silence  the  achievements  of  Union 
heroes;  and  who,  while  mourning  over  the  detention  of  traitors  in 
forts  of  the  North,  have  no  word  of  sympathy  for  suffering  patriots  in 
prisons  of  the  South. 

Resolved,  That  while  the  honest  exercise  of  the  right  of  criticism 
upon  the  acts  of  public  men  is  approved  and  defended,  we  condemn  the 
abuse  of  that  right,  as  practiced  by  those  who  systematically  misrepre 
sent,  and  indiscriminately  denounce,  the  motives  and  measures  of  the 
constitutional  directors  of  our  National  Government.  That,  over 
whelmed  as  they  have  been  by  difficulties  and  responsibilities  of  a 
magnitude  unknown  to  their  predecessors,  no  candid  patriot  will  with 
hold  the  expression  of  surprise,  not  that  errors  have  been  so  many,  but 
father  that  they  have  been  so  few.  THAT  OUR  SURE  AND  STEADY  AD- 


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VANCEMENT  UPON  THE  LAND  AND  THE  WATERS,  DEING  THE  RE8CLT  OF 
PLANS  PROPOSED  AND  CO-OPRRATED  IN  BY  BOTH  MILITARY  AND  CIVIL 
AUTHORITIES,  IS  THE  RIGHTFUL  GLORY  OF  BOTH  THESE  BRANCHES  OF  Ol'R 
COUNTRY'S  SERVICE.  THE  MASTERLY  DIPLOMACY  OF  THIS  ADMINISTRA 
TION  ;  THE  TOWERING  ABILITY  AND  THE  SUCCESS  OF  ITS  FINANCIAL 
HEAD  J  THE  STATESMANSHIP  AND  PATRIOTISM  OF  ITS  CHIEF,  ARE  RECOG 
NISED  WITH  PRIDE  BY  THE  LOYAL  PEOPLE  OK  TUB  NATION.  They  wllO 

denounced  WASHINGTON  throughout  the  doubtful  period  of  the  Revo 
lution ;  MADISON  in  the  war  of  1812;  JACKSON  in  his  conflict  with 
Nullification,  and  LINCOLN  in  his  struggles  with  the  Great  Rebellion, 
will  be  charged  by  posterity  with  common  motives,  and  history  will 
do  justice  to  assailants  and  assailed. 

Resolved,  That  unable  to  directly  write  these  doctrines  upon  our  bal 
lots,  the  Unionists  of  New  York,  without  regard  to  past  political  divis 
ions,  will  vote  for  the  men  by  whom  these  principles  are  represented. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  alliance  recently  concluded  in  this  city,  between 
hostile  factions  of  the  Opposition,  the  people  have  witnessed  the  most 
dangerous  encroachment  upon  their  liberties  and  their  safety.  Politi 
cal  conventions,  throwing  off  all  pretense  to  representative  fidelity, 
have  resigned  their  powers  to  sub-committees,  and  they,  in  turn,  de 
spising  alike  the  interests  of  the  community  and  the  wishes  of  the  honest 
adherents  of  their  party,  have  bargained  away  both  county  and  judicial 
stations.  Crying  out  against  alleged  arbitrary  measures  to  maintain  the 
government  of  their  country,  they,  at  the  same  time,  attempt  to  subject 
the  people  of  this  city,  even  those  of  their  own  faith,  to  the  most 
shameless  tyranny.  THE  GLARE  OF  THE  INCENDIARY'S  TORCH  WAS 

HARDLY    EXTINGUISHED THE    CRY    OF    THE    HELPLESS    ORPHAN,  AND    OF 

THE    MURDERED    INNOCENT    WAS    SCARCELY    HUSHED THE    YELL    OF    AN 

INFURIATED  MOB,  INFLAMED  BY  SKULKING  LEADERS,  WAS  BUT  JUST  OVER 
COME,  WHEN  THE  INDEPENDENCE  OF  THE  JUDICIARY  OF  OUR  CITY,  THE 
ULTIMATE  PROTECTION  OF  LIFE  AND  PROPERTY,  WAS  DIRECTLY  ASSAILED. 

Precedent  may  be  searched  in  vain  for  the  overthrow,  in  this  city,  of 
upright  judges,  by  their  own  party,  to  compass  personal  interests  or 
political  schemes.  The  discarded  candidates,  although  not  of  our 
political  faith,  we  shall  sustain.  But  the  lesson  will  not  be  complete 
unless  all  the  expected  fruits  of  this  combination  shall  be  turned  to 
ashes  on  the  lips  of  its  inventors. 

These  resolutions  were  received  with  loud  demonstra 
tions  of  approval,  and  were  unanimously  adopted. 


.PAMPHLET  BINDER 
Syrocuie,  N.  Y. 
Stockton,  Colif. 


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